DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BALTIC FLEET; SHIFT OF SUBMARINE REPAIR BASE FROM KRONSHTADT TO TALLINN/OVERHAUL OF DESTROYERS/KOMSOMOLETS TRAINING CRUISE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500180197-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 197
• Publication Date: September 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Developments in the Baltic Fleet: Shift of Submarine
Repair Base from Kronshtadt to Tallinn/Overhaul of
Destroyers/Komsomolets Training Cruise
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a repair base for submarines of the Baltic
various salvage installations, thi base has a floating dock with a capacity of
holding and lifting lour K-type st'rnari.es simultaneously. This floating dock
lies now in' the Naval Port of 'Salli.nr_.
Fleet (Spasatelnaia Baza Podplava KBF-Krasnoznamennogo Baltiiskogo Flota) was
transferred from Kronshtad.T., the naval base at Leningrad, to Tallinn in Estonia.
It is now located in the basin of t!-a Naval Port in Tallinn. In addition to
Dectr er Repair
2. :he torpedo boat destroyers of the Baltic Fleet were sent every year
for over au and necessary repairs to the Kror.sntadt Naval Yard (Decorated with
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the Order of Lenin) (I[ronstadski O^dena Lenina t.forskoi Za'vc.d). The chief of this
shipyard is Engineer Rear-Admi_aJ I. A . :rlakov. His deputy is Engineer Rear-
25X1 Admiral S N Arkhipor. IIt e overhauling of the destroyers of the Baltic
Fleet is bLing carried out in Tallinn. Some src repaired at the Tallinn Naval Ship-
'yard whose chief is Commodore (Cap'e;n of 1st Rank) A.N.!Lebedev.
Komsomoletc Trainin Cruise
The naval training snip KO?AS-rdi,LE'.-Z carresr_ded by Cep tciu ?1st
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KONLSOMOLETS se_ve a _ inirrg :2 for first yea= first course) pupils
of the Dzerzhinski Htnira:~? Naval Eng.:_eri-,c S-;'?'s ' (Vvsshee Voienno-Morskoe
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the pupils of this school rtre b-.'_ng pt'.: through a practical course on s p s
engines and installations, the ica'_r.a, -f f:zel. ammunition and all sorts of
w?ir materials, takii,g of Vat-,l o, all rn this ship. The KOMSOMOISTii sails
in the Baltic end visits the pert .e !'ai'_z.nn. Riga; Lp13yft (Libau) and Balt ink
(Pillau)."
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